After five and half years on air, yesterday Something for the Weekend finally stumbled to a halt. Cause of death? Budget cuts. Beneficiaries? The general viewing public. Because even though it was relatively widely watched – and even though Channel 4 will basically be bringing us an almost identical show in Sunday Brunch – Something for the Weekend often felt like a chore, rather than a pleasure.

There were the endless meandering conversations about football between Tim Lovejoy and Simon Rimmer. The nothingy, weirdly decontextualised clips of upcoming BBC2 programmes. The awkward interviews where a minor celebrity would sit patiently as Louise Redknapp informed them of what she thought about things. The hapless press release recitals that doubled as gadget reviews.

Nobody enjoyed the bits where everyone talked over the cocktail guy, did they? Or the bits where Lovejoy would button his shirt all the way to the top, close his eyes, mumble the names of various Ocean Colour Scene album tracks and pray desperately that Britpop was still a thing? Did they?

Judging by yesterday's final show, it was hard to tell. There was a depressingly business-as-usual feel to it, with the only hint that anyone would miss it at all coming 15 minutes in when an email was read out. It was from a man who said that he spent the first Sunday morning with his current girlfriend watching the first ever Something for the Weekend – which was less of a tribute and more of an absent-minded observation. Even in the dying moments of the final show, as the credits ran, its passing was met with little more than a shrug.

In a way, that was the perfect send off. What brought viewers back to Something for the Weekend – even viewers like me, who found it profoundly annoying – was its undemanding nature. At its best, it washed over you. At its worst, it washed over you.

Of course, it doesn't really matter how much Something for the Weekend will be mourned. It'll soon be back on Channel 4 plodding on as if nothing has happened. There'll be changes, of course – Rimmer and Lovejoy will no longer have a female co-host, leaving them with nobody to ignore as they blather on smugly about football for hours at a time – but the basic shape will remain.

There will still be cookery and whichever celebrity guests are desperate enough for publicity to get out of bed at the crack of dawn on a Sunday morning – this week it's Zach Braff and Stacey Solomon – plus the same TV and film previews that clogged up Something for the Weekend. And there will also be something called the Sunday Brunch Playlist, where Tim and Simon and their guests will play a snippet of their current favourite track. Presumably this was called Sunday Brunch Playlist because it's snappier than Tim Lovejoy Just Repeats The Word "Kasabian" Over And Over Again All The Time Forever.

Sunday Brunch could be the perfect opportunity to correct some of Something for the Weekend's faults. It could be livelier. It could be tighter. There could be fewer photographs of viewers wearing second-division football tops and holding up plates of moussaka. It's replacing T4, which has been shunted off to E4 on Sundays, so it could play to a slightly younger audience. But from all the information available now – including the promo, which is basically Something for the Weekend with a slightly brighter palette – we should probably brace ourselves for nothing really changing.

So will you miss Something for the Weekend? Are you looking forward to Sunday Brunch? Do you even care? Let me know below.